After several years at our current premises, we have reached the stage where we need to move in order to accommodate our growing team. We started our search for our new office last year and, due to a shortage of suitable accommodation in our present area of Edinburgh, we cast our net a little wider.  Continue Reading »

Our clients will be familiar with our robust investment process and the work which our Investment Committee undertake. One of our key principles is that once we have identified the very best investment opportunities, we recommend that our clients only invest into these select few funds, known as our panel funds. Our rationale is simple;  Continue Reading »

We were in London last week to attend the prestigious Corporate Adviser Awards  ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel. Our employee benefits wing, Mearns Corporate Solutions, was shortlisted in the Small Firm of the Year category for 2012 and, as the first Scottish firm to have made the shortlist, we were enormously proud to be  Continue Reading »

Thank you to all of our clients, professional partners and suppliers for your congratulations on our most recent Gold Standard award success. We are delighted to bring you some photos from the event below: The award ceremony was held in the Members’ Dining Room at the House of Commons. Margaret accepts the award from Lord  Continue Reading »

In a recent post, we suggested that there were some reasons to be cheerful amidst the gloom. Specifically, we predicted that many companies are in rude health and that the war-chest of cash on corporate balance sheets could prove to be very significant in the coming months. Our experience told us that companies would seek  Continue Reading »

We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded the Gold Standard for Independent Financial Advice 2011. This is the third successive year that we have received this award and we remain the only Scottish firm to have earned this accolade. The award is being presented to Margaret Mearns and Malcolm Steel on 23rd  Continue Reading »

We received a request from a freelance journalist this week who was preparing a piece for one of the broadsheets. What was especially interesting was the tone of the questions posed to us: Which sectors do we think will suffer most in the next two years? How can investors shelter their portfolios from the downturn?  Continue Reading »